Monjack 'suffered near nervous breakdown'

Simon Monjack reportedly suffered a 'near nervous breakdown' following the death of his wife Brittany Murphy.

Film-maker Monjack died last Sunday and was buried in LA on Thursday next to the late actress. The preliminary cause of death is natural causes.

The 40-year-old had pestered Murphy's friends with texts and phone calls since she died in December, reports The Mirror. When he invited them to the screening of her last film Abandoned, many refused to go.

"Many of us found him difficult to accept, largely by they way he dominated Brittany. He was relentless. It got so bad, we refused to go. He left messages pleading with us. But we'd all feel like hypocrites if we'd gone," a friend said.

A month before he died, the source said the calls and messages stopped. "We assumed he got the message but I think he must have retreated into himself," the source said.